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Dan is doing the best 2012 games for the site.
WickedFilmHead is doing best movies of 2012.

But what about music?

Music is way too subjective so I'm not going to make a best of. Just list your top 5 favorite albums from this past year and talk a bit about why you liked them.

Mine are

#5 Fiona AppleThe Idler Wheel
Or if you want to get fancy; The Idler Is Wiser is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. Just for that title alone. But many fall nights I listened to this on the way home from work and it relaxed me after many stressful days.

#4 Dinosaur Jr.I bet on the Sky
The reunion album I've been waiting from this trio for awhile. I love the album from the opening tack Don’t Pretend You Didn’t Know, to the heavy single Watch the Corners. A great rock album in a sea of Gagnam Style.

#3 DeftonesKoi No Yokan
More on the melodic side but still heavy screams that hit you in the gut. Deftones are hit and miss but here they hit, hard.

#2 Nada SurfThe Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
Nostalgic, openly contemplative tracks about life past, present and future. This album reminds me of youthful years. I loved Smashing Pumpkins, they had songs about being young while I was young. Now that I'm old I feel this album understands life in the last 20's and early thirties, and takes you back to those years in the 90's when you were young.

#1 Jack WhiteBlunderbuss
The man who is saving rock and roll. The one and only Jack White. Blunderbuss is an incredible ablum, my favorite of the year._________________Life is not a predetermined path but a branch of many choices that make us who we are.

I have to listen to this Fiona Apple album. I keep hearing amazing things about it.

#1: Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

#2: Archive - With Us Until You're Dead

#3: Tenacious D - Rize of the Fenix

#4: Linkin Park - Living Things

#5: Billy Talent - Dead Silence

Not an amazing year for albums IMO. I discovered a lot of older music that has already been around (read: trip-hop). Last year I would be very hard pressed to make this list_________________NATURE! - Goulet

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to give the Fiona Apple and Jack White album a shot.
I wouldn't say it's been a weak year for music, but there wasn't much out there for me so I spent most of my year listening to the classics.

There's a couple of exceptions. Mayer Hawthorne's How Do You Do. It's The Temptations with 21st century swag. Fun, short album. (it was also released at the end of 2011...oops)

the music posted so far is basically the definition of hipster music. doesn't make anyone a hipster.

i have the smiths, stars, the zolas, florence + the machine, etc. on my playlist, and love all of it, and it's "hipster" music. was just a statement not a diss.

be less sensitive guys

for the record i can't stand hipsters though, my last, and final roommate was a hipster, and my God was that an annoying year in my life._________________The above statement is true
The below statement is false

They're quite prevalent in NE, especially the Lincoln area. But then again it's a pretty big college town. But for the most part, I actually like the "hipster" scene, so it doesn't bother me.

I like good music and good people but Im not into being into fashion. weather its the punks, the goths, the hipster, the gangstas, or the hippies. Same goes for "status items". The vehicle you drive has no relation to how much you are worth as a person and no you dont need 18inch gold rims. Really I would prefer if everyone would try to do there own logical things than try to do whatever is "hip" but as long as your being yourself I wont hate you.

I mean look at how funky Daniel is and I dont hate him

Im also not into the whole "The only thing thats cool is things that are unheard of" Dont get me wrong, they force some crud though the mainstream sometimes but that doesn't mean something good isnt there from time to time. Basically I hate people who dont have open minds or decide what other "hipsters" think about something is the thing they have to think. Fuck fascism_________________“I do like metaphorical heroin and my heroin dealer. EA”

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